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Ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, and more

Several folks on my Facebook fan page have been asking: How do I get started with living outside the Flat World in sustainable community? What are some resources?

Well, here’s one. A website called Intentional Communities serves the growing communities’ movement, providing resources for starting a community, finding a community home, living in community, and creating more community in your life.

And Intentional Community is simply an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.

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I’m living in cohousing right now and I love it, the main differences between cohousing and single-family housing is that I have neighbors that I know, cook with, drink wine with, spend hours on the patio talking about everything and nothing.

People who end up unhappy in their cohousing communities often didn’t have accurate expectations (or were not completely informed) going into it. Set yourself and your future neighbors up for success; give them a copy of Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett.